‘In My Garden’ explores the relationship between the studio and the garden—between creation and abandonment, order and spontaneous growth. The series emerges from the transformation of a once-field full of weeds into a tended garden that, periodically, dries out and becomes overrun with weeds. Yet internally, the garden persists, shifting into a mental space shaped by continuous change and regeneration. As living plants disappear from time to time, painting becomes a site of new germination. Gestures of care move from soil to paper, and the studio turns into a symbolic garden—where control and chance, growth and stagnation coexist.
The Inotești garden
My art studio and my garden coexist, they feed each other, but sometimes they also exclude each other. When I work too much in the studio, the garden suffers; when the garden demands all my time, the painting dries up.
Between these extremes, I have discovered a fragile truth: when I manage to keep both practices alive, balance is restored within me.
